% reviewed paper Urban Emotions and Realtime Planning Methods Peter Zeile (Dr.-Ing. Peter Zeile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Urban and Landscape Design | STQP,
[email protected]) 1 ABSTRACT The Urban Emotions approach combines methods and technologies from Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Social Media, sensors and bio-statistical sensors to detect people’s perception for a new perspective about urban environment. In short, it is a methodology for gaining and extracting contextual information of emotion by using technologies from real-time human sensing systems and crowdsourcing methods. “Real-time planning” describes a system in which planning disciplines get a toolset for a fast and simple creation of visualization or simulation from municipal geodata in a consistent workflow. This includes applications from Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality as well as the above mentioned combination of real-time humane sensors and urban sensing systems. Due to the fact, that a real existing city never corresponds with a laboratory situation, Virtual Reality can be one of the solutions to fill the gap for detecting people’s perceptions concerning design, while filtering other unintended side effects. Insights and results from Urban Emotions project, granted by German Research Foundation and Austrian Science Fond, will be presented in this contribution. It is based on a German contribution, published earlier this year (Zeile 2017). Keywords: walking, 360° cameras, people as sensors, virtual reality, cycling 2 REAL-TIME PLANNING Real time planning and the development of simulation and visualization methods in urban planning was published in 2010 (Zeile 2010). This contribution gives a short overview, how new technologies support this approach contemporarily, and how they can be used in urban and spatial planning.